Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

It’s hard to picture now, but Earth’s deep blue oceans were once green. According to a new study by Japanese researchers, ...

Roughly 40 percent of the world's population live in coastal areas. What once felt like a privilege — living close to the sea ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Scientists have hailed what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system on a planet about 124 ...

Astronomers have discovered a major sign of life — and “the first hints… of an alien world” on a distant planet orbiting ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Earth’s tallest waterfall isn’t on land—it’s hidden beneath the ocean between Iceland and Greenland, silently shaping global ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

We know it’s getting warmer. Earth’s climate has changed naturally over thousands of years—through cycles of ice ages and ...

A British-US team of researchers detected signs of two gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.